As co-penholders, Brazil and Switzerland actively and constructively engaged with all Security Council members, as well as partners in the region and other relevant stakeholders, both governmental and non-governmental, throughout intense negotiations during the past few weeks. We spared on effort to…
I wish to extend my sincere gratitude to today’s briefers for their detailed and instructive remarks on the situation in Yemen. Their dedication, expertise and first-hand knowledge are invaluable and will guide our work to contribute to alleviating Yemen’s immense challenges.
I congratulate the Uni…
I thank Under- Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing.
Brazil has been actively seeking constructive diplomatic solutions to the issues presented by this file for more than a decade now. We have been willing to work on creative solutions with a range of partners in order to dial down t…
I have just presented my credentials to the Secretary-General, António Guterres, and I am honoured to start today as the new Permanent Representative of Brazil.
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Maria Isabel Salvador Crespo and the Permanent Representative of Gabon for the…
Brazil entered negotiations hoping for the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), as we still had a positive assessment of its contribution to the situation in Mali. Nevertheless, we acknowledge the concerns raised by the Mal…
My delegation associates itself with the statement made by the representative of Switzerland, and I would now like to make some additional remarks in my national capacity on the political aspects of the conflict in Syria.
I thank Deputy Special Envoy Rochdi for her briefing and Special Envoy Peders…
I thank Under- Secretary-General Nakamitsu for her briefing. I also thank the other briefers for their interventions.
Brazil shares the concern about the disruptive potential of arms transfers to conflict zones. Our principled position on the subject remains the same.
First, we recognize the inher…
I thank Mr. Wennesland for his briefing and his valuable work on the ground. I also thank Mr. Zogby for his insights.
Last week, we witnessed a worrisome surge of violence in the West Bank, in yet another of the troubling cycles of spiralling violence that have continued for years in Israel and Pal…
In 2005, our leaders agreed that each individual State had the primary responsibility to protect its own populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. That is the first pillar on which the concept of the responsibility to protect (R2P) rests. The second pillar …
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee for her comprehensive briefing and welcome the representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda to today’s meeting.
When the Security Council last met to discuss the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democrati…
I thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo for the update on the impacts of the conflict on the Ukrainian population. We deeply regret the thousands of deaths officially recorded by the Office of the High Representative for Human Rights since February 2022 and deplore the continuing destruction of Ukr…
Brazil welcomes the adoption of the eighth review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (GCTS) (resolution 77/298). We commend the co-facilitators for promoting an inclusive negotiation and for their tireless efforts to build consensus over a highly sensitive and complex issue. Our…
As other delegations have done, I warmly welcome His Excellency President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. I thank Special Representative Laing, Special Representative El-Amine Souef and Executive Director McCain for their valuable briefings.
We acknowledge the work undertaken by the Federal Government of So…
I thank our guests for their insightful and informative briefings.
Brazil has long paid close attention to the international security implications of piracy and armed robbery in the Gulf of Guinea. As a founding member of the zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic (ZPCSA), it is our pr…
At the outset, my delegation expresses its condolences to the families of victims of terrorist attacks perpetrated in northern Afghanistan earlier this month. Brazil reiterates its condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary- Genera…
I begin by thanking Special Representative Haysom, Mr. Gituai and Mr. Impagliazzo for their knowledgeable insights. I also thank the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), the reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission and the Community of Sant’Egidio for their valuable work. …
My delegation would like to thank the briefers for their insights and welcome the Foreign Minister of the Central African Republic to today’s meeting.
With regard to the most recent developments on the ground, my delegation wishes to highlight the following points.
First, Brazil remains worried ab…
At the outset, I would like to echo previous speakers in expressing our condolences to the families of the victims of the sinking of the ship off the coast of Greece last week.
I thank Ambassador Ishikane for reporting on the recent activities of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 197…
My delegation thanks Special Representative of the Secretary-General Wane for his comprehensive briefing and welcomes Minister Diop to this meeting.
We received with dismay the news of the terrorist attacks against the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSM…
Brazil thanks the United Arab Emirates for organizing today’s important high-level meeting. We also thank the Secretary- General and our three briefers for their valuable contributions and wisdom.
Today’s briefing is in line with the importance that Brazil accords to combating the root causes of co…
